Batman: Arkham Asylum was released last Tuesday so you know I had to be on that. My funds are nowhere near where they are going to be, so I had to rely on Blockbuster. I'm so glad I didn't buy this game. It's a good game, but it's not great. I beat it in a day and a half. I wanted to finish it as fast as possible, but a day and a half is too fast for $59.99. The last game I crammed to finish was No More Heroes, and that took me 4 days. I also enjoyed playing it for the whole 4 days. The first step in Batman: AA is getting used to being Batman. If you a fan of Batman your going to have a great time because I would say this is the closest you'll get to actually being him. His movement is different from any other game I've played this generation.
The fighting annoyed the hell out of me. I wasn't impressed when I saw the demo. The fighting looked slow and easy. As I played through the game the fighting is slow and easy. Punch With Square, Counter with Triangle, Stun with circle. That's the basics. The gadgets and moves you learn throughout the game add more spice to the fights, but it felt repetitive on day one. Especially since in most places you couldn't use stealth to either attack or avoid them.
The stealth was my favorite aspect of the game. Stealth kills take looking at the situation as a whole and figuring out how to handle it. If there was an option to use stealth the whole time this game would have been a classic. The Riddler's clues were also fun. I caught myself ignoring the story looking for clues. The clues were cool because they did different things. Some came with character bios, while others opened new challenge modes. I found about half of his clues by the time I finished the story. The story is forgettable, but it's pacing kept me going. The Character Bio's helped me in understand how the Batman universe works.
I would recommend playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. Take your time with it. I tried to write about it right after I beat it. I couldn't because my brain had so much to process. Took me 4 days to finally be able to write something. It's all good though. My last words about Batman: Arkham Asylum are it's a good game, but it's not on my list for Game of The Year.
Batman: Arkham Asylum was released last Tuesday so you know I had to be on that. My funds are nowhere near where they are going to be, so I had to rely on Blockbuster. I'm so glad I didn't buy this game. It's a good game, but it's not great. I beat it in a day and a half. I wanted to finish it as fast as possible, but a day and a half is too fast for $59.99. The last game I crammed to finish was No More Heroes, and that took me 4 days. I also enjoyed playing it for the whole 4 days. The first step in Batman: AA is getting used to being Batman. If you a fan of Batman your going to have a great time because I would say this is the closest you'll get to actually being him. His movement is different from any other game I've played this generation.
The fighting annoyed the hell out of me. I wasn't impressed when I saw the demo. The fighting looked slow and easy. As I played through the game the fighting is slow and easy. Punch With Square, Counter with Triangle, Stun with circle. That's the basics. The gadgets and moves you learn throughout the game add more spice to the fights, but it felt repetitive on day one. Especially since in most places you couldn't use stealth to either attack or avoid them.
The stealth was my favorite aspect of the game. Stealth kills take looking at the situation as a whole and figuring out how to handle it. If there was an option to use stealth the whole time this game would have been a classic. The Riddler's clues were also fun. I caught myself ignoring the story looking for clues. The clues were cool because they did different things. Some came with character bios, while others opened new challenge modes. I found about half of his clues by the time I finished the story. The story is forgettable, but it's pacing kept me going. The Character Bio's helped me in understand how the Batman universe works.
I would recommend playing Batman: Arkham Asylum. Take your time with it. I tried to write about it right after I beat it. I couldn't because my brain had so much to process. Took me 4 days to finally be able to write something. It's all good though. My last words about Batman: Arkham Asylum are it's a good game, but it's not on my list for Game of The Year.
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